Title: Love and virtue in the Lobkowitz house theatre : Ferdinando Paër's L'amor conjugale
Source document: Musicologica Brunensia. 2023, vol. 58, iss. 1, pp. 73-94
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73-94
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ISSN1212-0391 (print)2336-436X (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/MB2023-1-5
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78848
Type: Article
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
The Lobkowicz Library and Archives preserve important materials that illuminate the musical sphere of Franz Joseph Maximilian, 7th Prince Lobkowitz (1772–1816). Though his patronage of Beethoven has been widely recognized and well documented, Lobkowitz's cultivation of opera productions in house theatres within his Bohemian and Vienna palaces, and his support of opera composers and singers, form a fascinating and little known part of his musical activity. This essay examines one particular opera, Leonora, ossia l'Amor conjugale, by Ferdinando Paër, which received a series of performances in the Lobkowitz house theatre in Vienna during the spring of 1806. A valuable trove of production documents, including account records from stage designer Lorenzo Sacchetti, costumer Lucas Piazza, and Lobkowitz Kapellmeister Anton Wranitzky, allows us to reconstruct the narrative of this opera's earliest performances in Vienna, and its connections to another opera based on the same libretto, Beethoven's Leonore (later Fidelio), presented during precisely the same period. Surviving manuscripts that include the opera's score and original performing parts, as well as Lobkowitz family letters, also contribute vital information.
References
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[2] PAËR, Ferdinando. Leonora ossia L'Amor conjugale. Fatto storico in due Atti. Tratto dal Francese. Da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Elettorale di Sassonia. Dresden, 1804. Libretto, MT 1001 R. Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden.
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[2] PAËR, Ferdinando. Leonora ossia L'Amor conjugale. Fatto storico in due Atti. Tratto dal Francese. Da rappresentarsi nel Teatro Elettorale di Sassonia. Dresden, 1804. Libretto, MT 1001 R. Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden.
[3] ALBRECHT, Theodore, trans. and ed. Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence. Vol. 1. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
[4] ENßLIN, Wolfram. Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke Ferdinando Paërs. Bd. 1: Die Opern. Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen, ed. Herbert Schneider. Bd. 23, 1. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2004.
[5] HADAMOWSKY, Franz. Die Wiener Hoftheater (Staatstheater) 1776–1966. Verzeichnis der aufgeführten Stücke mit Bestandsnachweis und täglichem Spielplan. Bd. 1, 1776–1810. Museion. Veröffentlichungen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Vienna: Georg Prachner, 1966.
[6] KUTSCH, K.J. – RIEMENS, Leo. Großes Sängerlexikon. 3rd ed., 7 vols. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1997.
[7] MACEK, Jaroslav – VOLEK, Tomislav. Beethoven's Rehearsals at the Lobkowitz's. The Musical Times, Feb. 1986, vol. 127, pp. 75–80.
[8] MACEK, Jaroslav. Franz Joseph Maximilian Lobkowitz. Musikfreund und Kunst-mäzen. In Beethoven und Böhmen. Ed. Sieghard Brandenburg and Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff. Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 1988, pp. 147–201.
[9] MORROW, Mary Sue. Concert Life in Haydn's Vienna: Aspects of a Developing Musical and Social Institution. Sociology of Music No. 7. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1989.
[10] RICE, John A. Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court 1792–1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
[11] ROBINSON, Paul, ed. Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
[12] ROTHENBERG, Gunther. Napoleon's Great Adversaries. The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792–1814. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.